New Deal or "Raw Deal": African Americans and the …

New deal or "raw deal" African Americans and the …

As the first incarnation of the New Deal progressed, African Americans continued to experience prejudice, segregation, unfair wages, and generally a "raw deal." But what was more, African-American women and men were not given a fair opportunity to ensure for themselves better political, social, and economic standing in the future.

New deal or raw deal?: dilemmas and paradoxes of …

The prevailing view among the African American leadership in 1935, argued Harvard Sitkoff, was that the federal government had "betrayed [African Americans] under the New Deal." Sitkoff referred to these "denunciations of the New Deal by blacks" as commonplace from 1933 to 1935.

Shortly after taking office, Roosevelt explained to the American people that his New Deal program would seek to deliver relief, recovery, and reform—the so-called "3 Rs."

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In his Introduction Howard Zinn defines the boundaries of the New Deal's experimentalism and attempts to explain why it sputtered out. The result is a book that captures the spirit of the New Deal—hopeful, pragmatic, humane—yet remains hardheaded about its accomplishments and failures. —from the Foreword

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As the first incarnation of the New Deal progressed, African Americans continued to experience prejudice, segregation, unfair wages, and generally a “raw deal.” But what was more, African-American women and men were not given a fair opportunity to ensure for themselves better political, social, and economic standing in the future.

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"The volume is primarily a collection of documents and . . . remains a vaulable resource. Containing 420 pages of documentation, it is divided into eleven sections . . . national economic planning, monopoly power and public enterprise, social welfare, and the interest groups which the New Deal failed to mobilize." —Stuart Kidd,

New Deal Thought - Political Theory

Introduction.Chronology.Selected Bibliography.

PART ONE: Philosophic Setting

1. Charles A. Beard: The Myth of Rugged American Individualism (1931)2. Upton Sinclair: Production for Use (1933)3. Reinhold Niebuhr: After Capitalism – What? (1933)4. Stuart Chase: The Age of Distribution (1934)5. John Dewey: The Future of Liberalism (1935)6. Thurman Arnold: A Philosophy for Politicians (1935)

PART TWO: Expectations

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Every Man Has a Right to Life (1932)8. Paul H. Douglas: The Roosevelt Program and Organization of the Weak (1933)9. Robert M. McIver: The Ambiguity of the New Deal (1934)10. Edward A. Filene: Business Needs the New Deal (1934)11. Henry A. Wallace: We Need a Declaration of Interdependence (1936)

23. Harry L. Hopkins: The War on Distress (1933)24. Nathan Straus: End the Slums (1938)25. Lewis Mumford: The Government Should Support Art (1936)26. Hallie Flanagan: The Drama of the Federal Theater Project (1939)27. Max Lerner: A TVA "Yardstick" for the Option Industries (1939)28. Alvin Hansen: The Need for Long-Range Public Investment (1939)

34. Fiorello La Guardia: Urban Support for the Farmer (1933)35. Henry A. Wallace: A Defense of the New Deal Farm Program (1938)36. William R. Amberson: Damn the Whole Tenant System (1935)37. John Steinbeck: The Torment of Migrant Workers in California (1936)38. Carey McWilliams: Farm Workers and "Dirt Farmers" need Power (1942)

PART EIGHT: Minimum Security

39. Hugo Black: For a Thirty-Hour Work Week (1933)40. Stuart Chase: The Consumer Must be Permitted to Consume (1933)41. Frances Perkins: The Principles of Social Security (1935)42. Henry Ellenbogen: The Social Security Act is Only a Beginning (1935)43. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work (1937)44. Samuel Lubell and Walter Everett: The Breakdown of Relief (1938)45. Henry E. Sigerist: Government Should Also Protect "The Right to Health" (1938)

PART NINE: The Negro

46. Guy B. Johnson: Does the South Owe the Negro a New Deal? (1934)47. John P. Davis: The New Deal: Slogans for the Same Raw Deal (1935)48. Robert C. Weaver: The New Deal is for the Negro 49. Walter White: U.S. Department of (White) Justice (1935)50. Harold L. Ickes: Not "Special Consideration" But a "New Social Order for All" (1936)51. W. E. B. DuBois: Can Federal Action Change the South? (1940)

56. Frances Perkins: FDR Was "A Little Left of Center" (1946)57. Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Jay Vinton: The New Deal "Moves in Every Direction at Once" (1935)58. Floyd B. Olson: A New Party to Challenge Capitalism (1935)59. Norman Thomas: Socialism, Not Roosevelt's Pale Pink Pills (1936)60. John Maynard Keynes: The Maintenance of Prosperity is Extremely Difficult (1938)61. John Dewey: The Old Problems are Unsolved (1939)62. The New Republic: "Extraordinary Accomplishments" and "Failure in the Central Problem" (1940)

Roosevelt and the New Dealers believed that they faced the potential for significant resistance to their economic recovery program from Southern Democrats on Capitol Hill if they tried to interfere with race relations in the South.

Why the Stimulus Won't Work: The Raw Deal - …

Because FDR made the modern presidency and the New Deal made modern American society. Whether you love FDR's politics and policies or loathe them, it's impossible to imagine the world we live in today without them.

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This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers—the men who devised and executed the programs of the government in the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt—but also of the "social critics" who "gathered in various stances and at various distances around the Roosevelt fires." Here is a sampling of the famous movers and shakers of the 1930's: Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell, David Lilienthal, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, John Maynard Keynes, and of course Roosevelt himself. Here too are the voices of those who thought the New Dealers were going "too far" such as Walter Lippmann and Raymond Moley, and of those who thought they were not going "far enough"; like John Dewey, W. E. B. DuBois, Norman Thomas, Lewis Mumford, and Carey McWilliams.